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@checht.bsky.social

Fintech & Data Geek, World Traveler, Politics Junkie, UCLA Bruin, Husband, Father, views are my own and shared by rational people

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Just an FYI, the Catholic League is an independent, private organization that is not an official agency of the Catholic Church. Not sanctioned at all by the Church this is a fringe view

15.11.2025 22:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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White House downplays new Epstein emails that mention Trump The House Oversight Committee has released a new tranche of documents, including several emails from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that refer to President Trump.

Imagine what Epstein, the world’s most notorious pedophile and sex trafficker, must’ve seen his best friend do.
“I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump," Epstein wrote in 2017 to former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. "Not one decent cell in his body."
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...

13.11.2025 14:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great piece. Quick question: when the pendulum swings, we should definitely push for bold legislation to defend and protect marginalized communities. What are your thoughts on holding those accountable for potential crimes? We seemed to have “retreated” from this in 2020.

12.11.2025 15:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AOC and Her Ideas About Income
Inequality......❤️

11.11.2025 11:31 — 👍 3635    🔁 1131    💬 106    📌 56
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Where to Celebrate Veterans Across OC Ceremonies, parades and flag displays are among many free events offered in honor of military men and women this Veterans Day.

If you live in Orange County and want to honor the service and sacrifice for those who have served, here’s a good list of local activities voiceofoc.org/2025/11/wher...

11.11.2025 16:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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They found billions for foreign deals but not for your healthcare.

Hold them accountable. Flood the lines!
📱 (202) 224-3121

10.11.2025 19:57 — 👍 769    🔁 453    💬 24    📌 10
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United Fintech Acquires Trade Ledger to Drive AI-Powered Innovation in Banking United Fintech acquires Trade Ledger to advance AI-driven innovation in commercial and business banking.

Proud to see Trade Ledger join forces with United Fintech to accelerate AI-powered innovation in banking. It’s been an excellent chapter working with such a talented team to transform commercial lending, and I'm excited for what’s next!

innovationstreets.com/united-finte...

09.11.2025 19:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I really hope this is AI. This is such a global embarrassment.

09.11.2025 16:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's complicated. But the bottom line is the next step would be for the whole court to consider it and it could result it in a stay designed by the 6-justice legion of doom.

08.11.2025 03:42 — 👍 40    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

I disagree. The incentive should be measured in terms of the improved lives of your constituents, not in financial terms. Unless you're arguing that they should have a living wage? Making the incentive financial-only would only attract those motivated by greed and would increase corruption.

07.11.2025 16:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Awesome interview. Don’t sell yourself short. Your live recordings and bootlegs are awesome. We used to trade them in high school, and Kashmir at Earls Court in ‘75 can’t be beat.

06.11.2025 02:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Cruelty is the point.

03.11.2025 12:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Even the most advanced AI (Deep NN, advanced reasoning) will never feel anything. Consciousness isn’t computation. It’s a biological phenomenon rooted in lived experience. At best, they’re Chalmers’s philosophical zombies. Stochastic parrots without an inner world. #AI

02.11.2025 18:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy 🎃 Halloween. Great to see Brian Stack back as Frankenstein. A Conan classic that will start your day with a smile.

31.10.2025 14:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Exactly! This mistake should not be made again.

30.10.2025 01:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#dei #equity #diversity #inclusion #schoolboard #Virginia #virginiabeach #resist #fyp #news TikTok video by BeezayDad

Worthy of a few moments of your time www.tiktok.com/@beezay22/vi...

29.10.2025 21:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

State-sponsored media will spin each of those topics to make them seem positive. If it impacts an individual who is a devout follower, the erosion of the fourth estate will reinforce their conviction that making America great again is a worthy sacrifice. They will follow him to their own peril.

26.10.2025 14:24 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

According to usafacts.org/articles/how..., we are looking at 2.86 million on the payroll, so @ike55.bsky.social is spot on. This payment is a drop in the bucket, and some repayment will happen at some point.

26.10.2025 01:49 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

24.10.2025 17:14 — 👍 30069    🔁 14883    💬 857    📌 692
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It’s Winter Palace meets casino room . . . he likes it ‘gaudy as hell’ When nearly 19 million Americans tuned in on Sunday night for the first big TV interview with their next president, they saw Donald Trump perched on a golden Louis XV chair, beneath an arched ceiling

The sad thing is, this isn't a joke. He visited the Winter Palace in 1987 and used it to inspire his penthouse in Trump Tower. www.thetimes.com/world/us-wor...

23.10.2025 05:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We have just over two weeks to pass Prop 50. And when we do, it will send a message of hope across the country, that change is possible if we do the work.

So, let’s get to it. linktr.ee/cadem

22.10.2025 22:49 — 👍 14491    🔁 4284    💬 375    📌 172

According to the International Institute for Sustainable Development, the cost to feed one child a year would be $208.05, which means Trump could’ve fed $4.8 million children for an entire year, or he could build this horrendous vanity project. www.donorplatform.org/wp-content/u...

23.10.2025 04:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean
Total reported killed: 34 people
Notification Date	Number Reported Killed	Approximate Location	Notification URL
September 2, 2025	11	“in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago)	View
September 15, 2025	3	
“in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters	View
September 19, 2025	3	“in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic	View
October 3, 2025	4	“in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela”	View
October 14, 2025	6	“in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela”	View
October 16, 2025	2; 2 reported survivors	“in the Caribbean”	View
October 17, 2025	3	“in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility”	View
October 21, 2025	2	“in the Eastern Pacific”	View

Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean Total reported killed: 34 people Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View September 15, 2025 3 “in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

22.10.2025 19:42 — 👍 12068    🔁 6145    💬 503    📌 394
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Oklahoma ranks 50th in the nation for public education Oklahoma ranks 50th in the U.S. for public education, says new Wallet Hub study.

And depending your source, Oklahoma ranks either 49th or 50th out of our 50 states in education. 🤔 www.news9.com/story/6882fa...

22.10.2025 10:25 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Orange County CA - Ballot Update
10-21-2025

Ballots Issued: 1,921,253
Ballots Returned: 297,376 
% of Ballots Returned: 15.48%
Democratic Ballots Returned: 121,442
Republican Ballots Returned: 106,783
Number of Days til Nov. 4: 14

Orange County CA - Ballot Update 10-21-2025 Ballots Issued: 1,921,253 Ballots Returned: 297,376 % of Ballots Returned: 15.48% Democratic Ballots Returned: 121,442 Republican Ballots Returned: 106,783 Number of Days til Nov. 4: 14

⚠️ ORANGE COUNTY - ELECTION ALERT ⚠️
Only 14 days left.
Only 15% of ballots returned.
The race is neck and neck.
Your vote has never been more important. Please, take 5 minutes to complete your ballot, SIGN IT, and return it today.

21.10.2025 17:24 — 👍 30    🔁 26    💬 4    📌 1
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Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

19.10.2025 00:42 — 👍 2423    🔁 838    💬 52    📌 107
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“We’re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he’s a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power. And we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.” 🦄

19.10.2025 02:00 — 👍 3320    🔁 907    💬 82    📌 62
The image is taken from an angle, and you can see the ocean tilting 30 degrees in the distance, with a huge crowd in front of it. In the foreground, you can see the giant American flag that is being held up by hundreds of protesters clustered around its edges.

The image is taken from an angle, and you can see the ocean tilting 30 degrees in the distance, with a huge crowd in front of it. In the foreground, you can see the giant American flag that is being held up by hundreds of protesters clustered around its edges.

This is the human banner from the air. It's sign made from masses of people standing together to form letters. It reads "No Kings Yes on 50." There is an American flag in the middle and a thick border around the banner. (Prop 50 is a California state proposition to gerrymander the state to create more blue districts, in order to combat the Texas law that gerrymanders their state to create more red districts.)

This is the human banner from the air. It's sign made from masses of people standing together to form letters. It reads "No Kings Yes on 50." There is an American flag in the middle and a thick border around the banner. (Prop 50 is a California state proposition to gerrymander the state to create more blue districts, in order to combat the Texas law that gerrymanders their state to create more red districts.)

I joined the "human banner" at San Francisco's Ocean Beach. This flag was at the center. It was a gorgeous day with enormous waves. #nokings

19.10.2025 01:09 — 👍 10950    🔁 1816    💬 111    📌 53
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This Frog had the moves to the drums too.

19.10.2025 01:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was great to see you and Sarmiento out today!

19.10.2025 01:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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